Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenAI

Interview with Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower (youtube.com)
OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers (petapixel.com)
OpenAI has missed its own 2025 deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company’s training data.
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents.
Show HN: Value likelihoods for OpenAI structured output (arena-ai.github.io)
structured-logprobs is an open-source Python library that enhances OpenAI's structured outputs by providing detailed information about token log probabilities.
OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Feed Its Data into AI Systems (gizmodo.com)
OpenAI wants you to think of AI like a car. Europe invented the car, but heavy regulations prevented its widespread adoption there. In laissez-faire America, the car dominated the culture. OpenAI wants the U.S. to do that again. On Monday the company behind ChatGPT published AI in America: OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint, a whitepaper that calls on Washington to let AI determine the country’s future.
Sama: "Insane thing: we are currently losing money on OpenAI pro subscriptions" (twitter.com)
OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than expected
Geoffrey Hinton Throws Support Behind Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
An increasingly diverse coalition is forming in opposition to OpenAI’s plan to restructure itself into a fully for-profit company.
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025 (techcrunch.com)
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day.
Godfather of AI Throws Support Behind Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
An increasingly diverse coalition is forming in opposition to OpenAI’s plan to restructure itself into a fully for-profit company.
OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’ (daringfireball.net)
The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission. We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined. Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness.
Family of Deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Disputes Suicide Ruling (twitter.com)
Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death (theguardian.com)
Poornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November.
Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s (chuckwnelson.com)
You know when you go on a picnic, sometimes there's a fly that decides to join you.
OpenAI Is Lehman Brothers (sherwood.news)
A crash is coming.
Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy (sfist.com)
There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
OpenAI says it needs 'more capital than we'd imagined', lays out for-profit plan (cnbc.com)
Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI' (gizmodo.com)
OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial general intelligence, or any system that can outperform humans at most tasks. According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
OpenAI is Lehman Brothers: A crash is coming (sherwood.news)
A crash is coming.
Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI' (gizmodo.com)
OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial general intelligence, or any system that can outperform humans at most tasks. According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data (euronews.com)
World, a biometrics identification project cofounded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has been told it did not meet European data protection rules and has been issued with a corrective measure.
You don't need to pay for OpenAI - Gemini 2.0 Free & More (github.com/EliasPereirah)
Orion is a web-based chat interface that simplifies interactions with multiple AI model providers.
O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem (garymarcus.substack.com)
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation starts”.
OpenAI's GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
O1: A Technical Primer – LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
TL;DR: In September 2024, OpenAI released o1, its first "reasoning model". This model exhibits remarkable test-time scaling laws, which complete a missing piece of the Bitter Lesson and open up a new axis for scaling compute. Following Rush and Ritter (2024) and Brown (2024a, 2024b), I explore four hypotheses for how o1 works and discuss some implications for future scaling and recursive self-improvement.
Ask HN: What does OpenAI's O3 Arc result mean for the field? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What does OpenAI's O3 Arc result mean for the field?
OpenAI Announces New O3 Model (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day “shipmas” event.
OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (arcprize.org)
OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set at our stated public leaderboard $10k compute limit. A high-compute (172x) o3 configuration scored 87.5%.
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 11 – A new way to work with ChatGPT [video] (youtube.com)
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Demo (simonwillison.net)
OpenAI announced a bunch of API features today, including a brand new WebRTC API for setting up a two-way audio conversation with their models.